Abstract: A detection apparatus has a detector for detecting, on the basis of an object area that is an area corresponding to an object in an image, an effective focus area from two or more focus areas set to the image.

Abstract: A camera system includes a body, a support member, and a camera. The body includes an image processing circuit. The support member is configured to rotatably support the body. The camera is configured to be detachably arranged at the body and includes a holding member and a sensor. The holding member is configured to detachably hold a lens. The sensor is configured to convert an optical image formed by the lens into an electrical signal. The image processing circuit is configured to perform image processing on the electrical signal from the sensor.

Abstract: A camera module according to an embodiment includes a liquid lens unit including a cavity, a conductive liquid and a non-conductive liquid disposed in the cavity, “n” individual electrodes (n being an integer of 2 or more), and a common electrode, an interface being formed between the conductive liquid and the non-conductive liquid, a main board including an element constituting a control circuit for controlling the operation of the liquid lens unit, and a holder coupled to the main board such that the open area of an insertion hole for insertion of the liquid lens unit is disposed along a first side of the main board.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a photodiode disposed in a semiconductor material to generate image charge in response to incident light, and a first transfer gate is coupled to the photodiode to extract image charge from the photodiode in response to a first transfer signal. A first storage gate is coupled to the first transfer gate to receive the image charge from the first transfer gate, and a first output gate is coupled to the first storage gate to receive the image charge from the first storage gate. A first capacitor is coupled to the first output gate to store the image charge.

Abstract: An imaging system includes: an imaging optical system; an imaging element having a two-dimensional pixel array; a drive unit that drives at least one of a focus lens and the imaging element; an IPSF selection unit that selects an IPSF that is used for image generation from among a plurality of IPSFs stored in an IPSF storage unit; and an image generator that generates an image using the selected IPSF.

Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes a plastic barrel and an imaging lens set. The plastic barrel includes an object-side aperture and a first annular surface. The imaging lens set includes a plurality of optical elements, wherein at least one of the optical elements is a plastic lens element, and the plastic lens element includes an effective optical portion, a peripheral portion, a second annular surface, and an object-side connecting surface. The peripheral portion is formed around the effective optical portion. The second annular surface is formed on an object-side surface of the plastic lens element and surrounds the effective optical portion. The object-side connecting surface is formed on the object-side surface of the plastic lens element and surrounds the effective optical portion, and the object-side connecting surface is connected with one of the optical elements disposed on an object side of the plastic lens element.

Abstract: Video frames of a document are captured. The edges of the document are identified from the frames as they appear within a field of view of a camera and a document rectangle for the document is tracked within the field of view. An area of the document determined from the frames is compared against the available area of the camera preview mode and a larger superimposed guiding rectangle is displayed as a guide within the camera preview mode. When a frame for the document is detected as having document edges that substantially fit within the guiding rectangle, the guiding rectangle is removed and an optimal image of the document is captured for subsequent downstream document image processing.

Abstract: An approach is provided for adjusting camera shots. The approach involves receiving, via a sensor of a mobile device, an audio signal during a video recording of a subject by a camera of the mobile device. The approach also involves determining, at the mobile device, an audio level in a vicinity of the subject based on the received audio signal, wherein the audio level represents a change in pitch, pace, and cadence of a sound produced by the subject. The approach additionally involves determining that the audio level triggers a shot adjustment state. In the alternative or in addition to, the shot adjustment state is triggered by facial expression of the subject. The approach further involves dynamically adjusting, in response to the shot adjustment state, one or more camera parameters of the camera to alter a shot of the subject by the camera during the video recording. The camera parameters relate to either zoom control, aperture, lighting, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: An interchangeable lens includes: a mount on which a camera body can be mounted; a communication device that performs communication with the camera body; a driven member; a controller that controls the driven member; and a storage device that stores lens data related to control of the driven member by the controller. The controller sends to the camera body via the communication device lens-side judgment data based on the lens data and a parameter relating to the driven member received from the camera body via the communication device and based on which whether the lens data is considered to be properly stored in the storage device or not can be judged at the camera body.

Abstract: A mobile device case includes a soft protective housing defining a camera-lens aperture and a touchscreen display aperture, and a lens attachment interface including a capture plate protruding into the camera-lens aperture sufficient to overlap a coupling interface of a removable lens assembly along the optical path of the miniature camera module, and a catch to facilitate stable locking coupling of the removable lens assembly in optical alignment with the miniature camera module.

Abstract: A camera module is provided, including a lens driving mechanism, a lens unit, a circuit board, and an image sensor. The lens unit is disposed on the lens driving mechanism. The image sensor is disposed on the circuit board. The circuit board includes a metal member, an insulation layer, and a metal wire. The insulation layer is disposed between the metal member and the metal wire, and the metal wire is electrically connected to the image sensor. The lens driving module can drive the lens unit to move relative to the image sensor. The image sensor can catch the light through the lens unit.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide is an on-vehicle image processing device that achieves low cost and provides high mounting accuracy and high electrical adjustment accuracy during a manufacturing process. The on-vehicle image processing device includes a first imaging section, a second imaging section, and an enclosure having the first imaging section at one end and the second imaging section at the other end. The on-vehicle image processing device generates a range image from images captured by the first and second imaging sections. The on-vehicle image processing device further includes an enclosure reference surface that comes in contact with an equipment jig during manufacture, the enclosure reference surface being provided at two locations between the first and second imaging sections.

Abstract: A method of multiple-exposure multiple-frame image capture, comprising, capturing a first group of frames at an underexposed setting, selecting a first key frame from the first group of frames, aligning the first group of frames to the first key frame, merging the first group of frames into one first frame, capturing a second group of frames at the underexposed setting, selecting a second key frame from the second group of frames, aligning the second group of frames to the second key frame, merging the second group of frames into one second frame, selecting a main group of frames based on the first key frame and the second key frame, aligning the first key frame and the second key frame based on the main group of frames and merging the first key frame and the second key frame based on the main group of frames.

Abstract: A graphical user interface system and method of recording/editing a video while applying special effects in real time. The interface can be associated with an electronic device including a processor in communication with a camera and a memory unit, or can receive previously prepared video. The native speed rate of the video can be changed, by modifying at least one frame in the video data to create a modified video data at a modified speed rate that is different to the native speed rate. This allows for continuous video recording from the camera or video feed at different speed rates without altering operations or settings. The interface can include time guidelines associated with selectable speed rates, to display which speed rate setting is near a touching finger or pointing device. The guidelines can be activated automatically based on finger location, and can aid in object positioning in a field-of-view.

Abstract: The solid-state image sensing device includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge holding unit for holding charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, a first transfer transistor for transferring charges from the photoelectric conversion unit to the charge holding unit, and a light blocking part including a first light blocking part and a second light blocking part, in which the first light blocking part is arranged between a second surface opposite to a first surface as a light receiving surface of the photoelectric conversion unit and the charge holding unit, and covers the second surface, and is formed with a first opening, and the second light blocking part surrounds the side surface of the photoelectric conversion unit.

Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are an exposure control method, an exposure control device and an electronic device. The exposure control method includes the following. Scene data is processed to obtain a foreground part of a cached main image. A reference exposure is determined according to brightness information of the foreground part. A first exposure for a first image and a second exposure for a second image are determined according to the reference exposure. An imaging device is controlled to expose according to the reference exposure, the first exposure and the second exposure.

Abstract: An analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) circuit and a CMOS image sensor are disclosed. The ADC circuit includes a first column line configured to receive a first pixel signal from a first pixel, a second column line configured to receive a second pixel signal from a second pixel located adjacent to the first pixel, and a correlated double sampling (CDS) circuit configured to perform a CDS operation by comparing the first pixel signal, the second pixel signal, a first ramp signal, and a second ramp signal with one another. The CDS circuit may perform the CDS operation on the first pixel signal by selecting the first column line in a first operation period, and may perform the CDS operation on the first pixel signal and the second pixel signal by selecting the first column line and the second column line in a second operation period.

Abstract: The present embodiment relates to a lens driving device comprising: a housing; a bobbin disposed inside the housing; and a lower elastic member provided on the lower side of the bobbin and coupled to the bobbin and to the housing, wherein the lower elastic member comprises a first outer portion, which is coupled to the housing, a second outer portion, which is coupled to the housing and is spaced from the first outer portion, a first inner portion, which is coupled to the bobbin, a second inner portion, which is coupled to the bobbin and is spaced from the first inner portion, a first elastic portion, which connects the first outer portion and the first inner portion, a second elastic portion, which connects the second outer portion and the second inner portion, and an inner connecting portion, which connects the first inner portion and the second inner portion.

Abstract: A drive substrate for a camera and a broadcast camera which are free from the occurrence of bit errors in video over a low to high temperature range while achieving reduction in a production cost and development time are provided. The phase of a clock is appropriately adjusted by repeating the processes of shifting the clock phase in a first period within a blanking period during which effective pixel data of each frame in a video signal is not used, detecting the occurrence/non-occurrence of a bit error based on the phase-shifted clock in a second period within the blanking period, and further shifting the clock phase in a third period within the blanking period.

Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of relatively easily creating text representing a description of an image. From a plurality of images selected from an image group, text describing the plurality of images is generated according to a text generation method. Generated text is displayed in a first text display region and a second text display region. In a case where text is corrected by a user, the text generation method is updated. More accurate text is generated.